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Nant Gwynant (also spelt Nantgwynant) is a valley in northern Wales.The A498 road descends 600 feet (180 m) into the valley in about two miles (3 km) from Pen-y-Gwryd; it follows the Nant Cynnyd, the Afon Glaslyn and alongside Llyn Gwynant, then beside the Nant Gwynant river to Llyn Dinas and passing below Dinas Emrys to Beddgelert.
Pen-y-Gwryd is a pass at the head of Nantygwryd and Nant Cynnyd rivers close to the foot of Snowdon in Gwynedd, Wales.The area is located at the junction of the A4086 from Capel Curig to Llanberis and Caernarfon and the A498 from Beddgelert and Nant Gwynant about a mile from the head of the Llanberis Pass.
The A498 descends the Nant Gwynant Pass via a 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles section with limited width and poor alignment. There is a steep descent of Nantgwynant and some 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles of this is on a substandard, narrow twisting alignment, where larger vehicles have difficulty in passing. There are further substandard sections in the Aberglaslyn Pass ...
Approach to Llyn Gwynant, from Capel Curig, ca.1840. Llyn Gwynant is a lake in Snowdonia, Wales. Llyn Gwynant lies on the River Glaslyn, in the Nant Gwynant valley, and is about 1¼ miles (2 km) north east of Llyn Dinas; the village of Bethania lies between them. Snowdon lies 2 miles (3 km) to the north west.
The Romans were mining copper in Nant Gwynant and the Sygun Mine operated in the Beddgelert area during the C19th, closing in 1903 as reserves approached exhaustion. [20] Manganese-bearing strata are known within the Rhinogydd [ 21 ] and a former manganese mine is recorded at Mochowgryn southwest of Arenig Fach .
Map of the community: A view of Beddgelert, 1814 The River Glaslyn at Beddgelert St Mary's Church Inside St Mary's Church. ... This includes Nantmor and Nant Gwynant.
It was financed by a group of Lancashire Industrialists and initially built the small hydro-electric plant at Nant Gwynant in Snowdonia. It had authority to build and operate hydro-electric generating stations and transmission lines covering over an area of 2,100 square miles of North Wales, consisting of the whole of Carnarvonshire ...
Nant-y-moch Reservoir — 525 acres (2.12 km 2) Caban Coch Reservoir — 519 acres (2.10 km 2) All of the above, with the exception of Bala Lake, are reservoirs held back by dams. Bala Lake was the largest natural lake in Wales though its level has been artificially controlled by sluices since about 1804. [2]